What will your 100-year life look like?Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Or can you see the potential for a more stimulating future as a result of having so much extra time?

Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: education, followed by work and then retirement. But this well-established pathway is already beginning to collapse â€“ life expectancy is rising, final-salary pensions are vanishing, and increasing numbers of people are juggling multiple careers. Whether you are 18, 45 or 60, you will need to do things very differently from previous generations and learn to structure your life in completely new ways.

The 100-Year Life is here to help.

Drawing on the unique pairing of their experience in psychology and economics, Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott offer a broad-ranging analysis as well as a raft of solutions, showing how to rethink your finances, your education, your career and your relationships and create a fulfilling 100-year life.

Â· How can you fashion a career and life path that defines you and your values and creates a shifting balance between work and leisure?

Â· What are the most effective ways of boosting your physical and mental health over a longer and more dynamic lifespan?

Â· How can you make the most of your intangible assets â€“ such as family and friends â€“ as you build a productive, longer life?

Â· In a multiple-stage life how can you learn to make the transitions that will be so crucial and experiment with new ways of living, working and learning?

Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, The 100-Year Life is a wake-up call that describes what to expect and considers the choices and options that you will face. It is also fundamentally a call to action for individuals, politicians, firms and governments and offers the clearest demonstration that a 100-year life can be a wonderful and inspiring one.

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A fascinating and thought-provoking book . a brilliant read for individuals, but should be mandatory reading for our politicians. (Shirley Cramer CBE Chief Executive Officer, Royal Society for Public Health)

This timely, important, easy-to-read and intriguing book will make you pause and think, as well as better plan your life . Gratton and Scott's book is a wake-up call for individuals, organizations, governments and societies. (Boris Groysberg Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School)

The authors understand implicitly that not only is the world as we know it changing beyond all recognition, but the way we lead our lives too. This book could not be more timely or necessary. (Julia Hobsbawm Founder and CEO, Editorial Intelligence Ltd, and Honorary Visiting professor in Networking, Cass Business School)

This playfully original book . makes a compelling case that as our lives become longer and healthier, the future might just be very, very different from what we have known until now. (Daron Acemoglu Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

[This] wonderful new book prepares us for the possibilities of this brave new world of longevity, and teaches us what it will take to thrive in it. (Professor Herminia Ibarra INSEAD)

Too many books bemoan the economic problems facing ageing societies. This splendid book is quite different . it should be read by anyone who wants to understand how life chances and choices will be transformed in a world where living beyond 100 will become the norm. (Lord Adair Turner Senior research Fellow of the Institute for new Economic Thinking, and previously Chairman of the UK Pensions Commission)

To understand how and why things might change, there can be nowhere better to start than with the fascinating The 100-Year Life. (Baronness Alison Wolf Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King’s College, London)

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In this book, the authors show how living to 100 will have a profound effect on society and the economy, and result in a complete restructuring of everyone's professional and personal lives.

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Excellent and motivational book to be heeded for all of us. Valuable lessons for the younger generations so that the gift of longevity, (the old 'three score years and ten' no longer applies), doesn't become a curse.

This is a must read. Well constructed narrative that examines the challenges longevity will bring and the social, financial, personal and governmental impact. Very thought provoking alarming yet optimistic in tone.

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3.0 out of 5 starsNot a book for smart / well-informed people

29 August 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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I made it just over 20% through this book. The premise is interesting -- the lead-in statistics quite gripping -- a middle-age person today has even odds of living to 95 -- we truly do not think in this mindset.

But what the authors *do* with it will not surprise anyone who is smart. They spent many pages going down the basics of compounding interest and retirement. If you're the type who needs to have this worked out for you, you may enjoy this book. Compounding interest is fundamental to how I see the world, and this section was a huge bore.

The authors then proceeded to talk about planning a life for a century. What they said would surprise no one who reads the news. They talk about the disappearance of factory labor, population inversion and pensions, the growth of service industry, etc. The basic groupthink of today. They project out into the next 10 or so years using, again, the groupthink of the day. Nothing was really surprising or interesting here. So I stopped reading it.

I always read reviews with an eye of how a smart/educated person may like a book, I was genuinely mislead by the reviews I read thinking that I would get something new/interesting from this book. But I didn't. I hope my review will help some folks. I do think many people will enjoy this book, but not people like me.

5.0 out of 5 starsNew ideas are hard to find, and this book has plenty.

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This is an exciting book packed with new ideas. Much of it is speculative, but the authors are upfront about the various assumptions they make.It is not a scholarly work, nor is it properly "self-help," but it has given me plenty to consider, and to discuss with my cohort and the younger members of my family. Not every chapter will be of interest to every reader, and if you've sat on a pension board or are an actuary several of the explanatory portions can be skipped, but for most readers most of it will be thought-provoking indeed. And relevant to many aspects of their lives.

This is a weird book. It felt like one of those classes in college you get very excited but in reality turns out to be boring, yet occasionally their is a spark of wisdom to get you out of the slumber and make you push reader further.One of the majors issues with the book is that the authors try to present an economic model full of assumptions. The model works well for the book but given the macro nature of the topic, readers might feel put off.Also, as other have pointed out here, the authors are a bit too optimistic on the quality of life people over 70 enjoy/will enjoy.Nevertheless, the book has some valuable advice for young and old.Really enjoyed the Assets model analysis and the end of the education-work-retirement model pieces.

This is a good books that looks at the implications of longevity and what that will mean foe retirement and skills and life. This is a business book and so it touches on the career and education aspects if life, but also contains a portion on the importance of relationships. The authors use the concept of capital investments and drawdown as a metaphor to discuss the need to spend time in relationships and skills to have a balanced life.

This book is a "must read" for almost everyone - if you are a parent, a grandparent, or anyone under 40, you really need to read this book! The 100 Year Life taps into the major demographic shift that is going on as we are living longer, healthier lives, and how this results in the need to rethink the entire life course - the nature of work, education, and how we think about time and how we use it. The book gives a very practical take on what today's young people, who are likely to live into their 90s and 100s, need to think about as they navigate this longer life course and how it will shift how people think about work, retirement, and relationships.